A person has been charged over an alleged “horrific” historic rape of teenager who was allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted in Melbourne greater than three a long time in the past.
Victorian Police arrested the 57-year-old Queenslander this week following a reopened investigation into the alleged incident in St Kilda in 1988.
The person arrived in Melbourne on Saturday the place he was formally charged with two counts of aggravated rape, two counts of rape, abduction by pressure, kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Police will allege the lady, then 19, was grabbed whereas strolling house from an evening out alongside Carlisle St in St Kilda on January 23, 1988.
She was allegedly pushed to Elwood Seaside and sexually assaulted.
Regardless of an investigation on the time, no expenses had been laid.
The case was reopened in 2021 after “extra data got here to gentle”, a Victoria Police spokeswoman stated.
Sexual Crime Squad Detective Performing Senior Sergeant Brett Robinson stated police had not given up on the hope of bringing justice for the alleged “horrific” crime.
“To be a 19-year-old girl, fortunately strolling house after a enjoyable night time out, who all of the sudden had her world modified immediately on this approach, is unimaginable,” he stated.
“Surprising crimes like this, go away a everlasting imprint … in the present day we hope now we have delivered some closure and aid.”
Police allege the person would have been in his 20s on the time of the alleged assault.
He was remanded into custody and can seem within the Melbourne Magistrates’ Courtroom in January subsequent yr.
